The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-03-12
Dr03dhTin'S New York Letter.
Special to the CARTON ADVOCATE,

awful than The destruction OF any party,
Democratic or Republican. The question
presented to the people of these United
States is. whether liberty shall survive as
the heritage Of our children or whether it
shall perish from the face of the earth. We
are just now beginning to realize the terri
BILE crisis from which we have escaped and
the ruin in which this Master workman
Quinn was willing to plunge this city to
carry his point of getting few cents day
for eighty or hundred coal strikers. If
this is a Government of Quinns ana fellows
Of like ilk, instead of a Government ''of
the people, for the people, and by the peo-
pie" we had better find 1t out at once.
No one objects TO trades organizing for
mutual protection and assistance, but we
draw the line, when, not satisfied with pro-
tccting their own rights, they trample on
the rights of everybody else Unless you
go along the wharves and into the streets
adjacent to the rivers, where the toilers
dwell, you cannot realize the depth of
misery in which this cruel and barbarous
despotism has plunged these ignorant
strikers. A man can well understand how
one man or thousand men could 60 out
on strike if he or they had a grievance;
but here were fifty thousand men and not
one in hundred had anything to com
plain of; they were getting all the wages
they asked and working the hours that they
themselves had established. They were
contented and happy, but Quinn ordered
them out and they went like a flock of
sheep. In a few days their families we're
without food or FIRE, the children were cry
ing for bread, the wives were famishing
with hunger and cold, but the strikers
closed their ears to their cries and heard
nothing but the command of Quinn. Such
an exhibition of abject slavery and degrad-
alton among white men was never seen on
this continent before. Talk of men wor-
shipping golden calves and gods of wool
and stone, 1t was nothing to the abascment
OF these strikers. They did not pretend 10
make he'slightest effort at reason: there
was no exercise of judgment or thought of
consequence; Quinn said strike. and that
was enough.
In New York we have seen what little
pluck and determination can do. The
freight handlers and 'longshoremcn num-
bered about five thousand FIVE hundred
men, Of these nearly four thousand have
lost their places; some are starving. others
begging charity, thousands hunting around
for work, only to be refused when thev are
known. They find non-union men in their
places; they will not be given another op-
portunity to paralyGe the commerce of New
York, and they will learn from bitter cx-
perience that we have paid too costly a
price for this Republican Government of
ours to allow dcspotism, no matter what
its name or by who engineered, to be raised
in our midst to trample OH the rights of
our citizens. We, too, announce to the
knights of Labor and all kindred Associa
lions' that an injury to one is an injury to
all, and as long as law remains supreme in
this land its humjlest citizen, union or
ron'u union, shall be free to CARY his labor
where he will, and regardless of associa
tions sell it to the highest bidder. and no
man shall say him nay. We fought for the
emancipation and freedom of the aborng
man, and with Gods help we will maintain
HIM in his right as long as one stone re-
mains above another in this Republic.
As said, American pluck has triumphed:
all the steamship companies are going
ahead as of yore; we have now got all the
coal we want; the bug-a-boo of the terrible
boycott has been knocked on the head and
its brains dashed out, if it ever had any.
and Quinn and his Assembly 40 are roundly
cursed by the miserable dupes who have
been led to ruin by him.
But the pronunciamento of Mayor Hew-
lit to the Knights of Labor is not his only
surprise to the lawless elements For wears
past it has been the habit for certain large
German saloons, or gardens as they were
called, to have Sunday evening sacred con-
certs, garnished with Rhine wine, lager
book beer, Frankfurt sausages, Schweitzer
kasc and bologne. The sacred perform
ances were amusing if not always edifying
and consisted of little of everything from
concert on the tumblerolicon to a round
with two ounce gloves according to the
Marquis of Queensberry's rules. Among
the most defiant offenders who considered
themselves outside the pale of the law
were Roster & Bail on 23d Street. They
had had great fortune; they had strong
political pull; they made and unmade AL
dermen, and got whom they pleased ap-
pointed on the police. The Mayor, not ap-
proving the character of this place, induced
the Excise Board TO refuse them license.
This made no difference to Roster & Bail.
and they proposed to go on without it.
Mayor Hewitt brought them up with a
round turn, and when they found them
selves in the grasp of the law they paid
their fines, blessing their lucky stars that
they were not sent to PRISON. they shut up
their shop and now the property is adyer- |
tised for sale. Tom Gould's notorious dive
is dark and Tom himself fugitive from
justice. 1t is rumored that Harry Hill is
about to join the Salvation Harmy, though |
it is said that he will not make an omen
profession faith till after Jack Dempsey's |
fight with the Unknown, and John l.. !
Sullivan has settled conclusions with Jem |
Smith and polished off Mitchell.
The German opera closed its season with
Wagner's Die Mcistersngcr, the enthusi-
asm at the close being up to fever heat as
it was also the last night of the great leader
Anton Seidl, who goes back to the ROYAL
Opera House at Berlin. No king or his
throne ever received more royal ovation:
men and women stood up on the seats and
waved their hats and handkerchiefs and
shouted themselves hoarse fol the great
leader. Wagner for the moment was lost
sight of in Seidl; and right here just mark
my words, and | am neither prophet nor